Im Part of Something Thats Really Evil

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 9:45 a.m.

This episode contains strong language.\n\nTerry Albury joined the F.B.I. just before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, drawn in by the bureau\u2019s work fighting child exploitation. His role quickly changed after 9/11 however, and he subsequently spent over a decade working in counterterrorism.\n\nAround 2015, he began to deeply question his work. \u201cThis is not what I joined the F.B.I. to do,\u201d he recalled thinking.\nHis doubts about the bureau\u2019s workings led him to leak classified information to journalists. Today, we hear his story.